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The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, [ 4 ] and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war.
At ranges between 400 and 800 m (437 and 875 yd), the then available small arms capable of returning effective fire, were the general-purpose machine gun and the bolt-action sniper rifle. These weapons chambered for the fully-powered 7.62 mm NATO cartridge were not well suited to increase the effective engagement range of the British eight-man ...
Lewis Machine & Tool Company (LMT) is an American armaments company founded by Karl Lewis, in 1980. It manufactures weapon systems, including a variant of the M4 carbine and the M203 grenade launcher . [ 1 ]
Chauchat M1915 (5000 Machine guns donated by France. They were not issued during Winter War as arrived in January-February of 1940. Mostly issued to Finnish home front units, field artillery and some shortly equipped infantry units during early Continuation War.) Lewis machine gun (Small number used on aircraft and as anti-aircraft machine gun ...
The Barling was armed with seven .30-caliber Lewis machine guns, which were operated from five stations. [8] The gun stations gave the gunners a field of fire that covered practically the whole area around the bomber. Bomb racks were mounted in an enclosed bomb bay beneath the gasoline tanks.
At 9 kilograms (20 lb), the gun was much lighter than the contemporary portable light machine guns of the period, such as the 12-kilogram (26 lb) Hotchkiss M1909 Benét–Mercié machine gun and the 13-kilogram (29 lb) Lewis gun. It was a selective fire weapon, either on automatic or semi-automatic mode.
37mm Bofors cannon and 3x 7.92mm Lewis machine gun: Ehrhardt Potkachel [7] 1918: 1: 57mm Krupp gun 6tl Alvis Strausser AC3D [8] 1938 12 a 12.7 mm Colt-Browning MG in the turret and a 6.5 mm Vickers machine gun on the left of the driver M3A1 Scout Car: 1941 40 two .30-caliber M1919 Browning machine gun and one .50-caliber M2 Browning machine gun ...
A5 Cal. .30 machine gun M1917A- (M1917 Browning machine gun) A6 Cal. .30 machine gun M1919A- (M1919 Browning machine gun) A7 37 mm gun carriage M1916A1, A2; A8 ammunition cart machine gun M1917; A9 37 mm ammunition cart M1917; A10 Items not authorized for general use; A11 Lewis aircraft machine gun, cal. .30 M1918, parts and equipment.